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In this concise book, Dennis Zuev succeeds in addressing a series of interlinked, urgent questions to do with mobility, sustainability, class and urban planning, while also providing a fascinating ethnographic snapshot of the fast changing character of urban life in contemporary China. Engagingly written in a lively style, the book can be read in an afternoon, but it lingers on.Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo

Based on solid empirical investigation, Zuev offers us a comprehensive view of the social, cultural and political contexts in which China’s e-bike thrives and develops, despite sporadic resistance from governments, users and by-standers.Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Helsinki

The incredibly rapid, top to bottom transformations, are taking place in China today present a major problem for social scientific analysis. However, Dennis Zuev’s multi-method focus on one urban mobility technology — two-wheeled electric vehicles used by 200 million people — provides clear and deep insights into society-wide changes that go far beyond the nation’s low-carbon policies. Well-Illustrated, clearly written and with thick descriptions, Electric Mobility in China, is a much-needed addition to the literatures on socio-cultural and political transformations in China as well as changing urban mobility systems around the world.Jerome Krase, Emeritus and Murray Koppleman Professor, Brooklyn College CUNY. is author of Seeing Cities Change: Local Culture and Class (Routledge)

Reviews
“In this wide-ranging book, Mimi Sheller provides a lucid map linking struggles on diverse spatial scales. Sheller shows how the fight for mobility justice can forge connections across scales and between social movements. Essential reading for anyone looking to build solidarities in our all too fragmented and crisis-ridden world.”
—Ashley Dawson, author of Extreme Cities

“How people and materials move around our globalised planet is central to our intensifying environmental crises, pollution crises and increasingly murderous refugee crises. And yet mobilities are still often partitioned off as the technical and depoliticised stuff of engineers. This brilliant book should change this once and for all. A brilliant and searing exposé of the politics of movement and mobility, Mobility Justice forces questions of social and racial justice to the heart of debates about migration, transportation, smart cities, militarising borders, and planetary ecology. A unique and pivotal book.”
—Stephen Graham, author of Vertical

“The essential field guide to the politics of mobility from the policing of racialized bodies to the impact of movement on climate change. Sheller articulates the urgency of both understanding, and acting on, the ways we move in order to imagine and articulate a better world.”
—Tim Cresswell, author of On the Move: Mobility in the Modern Western World

About the AuthorMimi Sheller is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Mobilities Research and Policy at Drexel University. She is the author of Democracy after Slavery, Consuming the Caribbean, Citizenship from Below, and Aluminum Dreams.